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    Adoration of the Magi
    Jan van Scorel. Adoration of the Magi, c. 1519. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00000811

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    Adoration of the Magi

    by Jan van Scorel

    Provenance

    Probably a member of the Khuen von Belasy family [based on the coats of arms formerly on the picture]. Von Ferstel collection, Vienna, until 1920 [according to Friedländer 1923, p. 606]. Camillo Castiglioni, Vienna, from 1920; sold, Frederick Muller, Amsterdam, November 17–20, 1925, no. 47. Dr. Tietje, Amsterdam, by 1929 [lent by him to 1929 exhibition]. Paul Cassirer and Co., Amsterdam; sold to the Art Institute, 1935.

    Exhibition history

    Düsseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Alte Malerei aus Privatbesitz, 1929, cat. 18. Art Institute of Chicago, The Christmas Story in Art, 1938–39, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, Glad Tidings of Great Joy, 1994–95, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, On the Road to Italy: Early Paintings by Dutch Renaissance Master Jan van Scorel, 1998, no cat.

    Publications

    Max J. Friedländer, review of Kurt Steinbart, Die Tafelgemälde des Jakob Cornelisz van Amsterdam, in Kunstchronik und Kunstmarkt 31/32 (1923), pp. 605–06. H. W. Hupp, “Jubiläumsausstellung des Kunstvereins für die Rheinlande und Westfalen: Alte Malerei aus Privatbesitz,” Pantheon 4 (1929), p. 340. Kurt Steinbart, “Nachlese im Werke des Jacob Cornelisz,” Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 5 (1929), pp. 234–36, 257, fig. 48. Walter Cohen, “Die Madonna mit musizierenden Engeln von Jakob Cornelisz und einige andere Gemälde des Meisters,” Pantheon 5 (1930), pp. 106, 108 (ill.). Max J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, vol. 12, Berlin and Leiden, 1935, pp. 110, 195, no. 256, pl. 52; rev. English ed., Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. 12, Brussels and Leiden, 1975, pp. 59, 116, no. 256, pl. 143. G. J. Hoogewerff, De Noord-Nederlandsche Schilderkunst, vol. 3, The Hague, 1939, pp. 119–20. The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 85. Molly A. Faries, “Jan van Scorel, His Style and Its Historical Context,” Ph.D. diss., Bryn Mawr College, 1972, pp. 47–48 n. 26. Maryan Wynn Ainsworth and Molly Faries, “Northern Renaissance Paintings: The Discovery of Invention,” Bulletin of the Saint Louis Art Museum 18, 1 (1986), p. 17, fig. 24 (detail). Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America, Washington, D.C., and Grand Rapids, Mich., 1986, p. 49. Jane L. Carroll, “The Paintings of Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen (1472–1533),” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1987 (Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms, 1988), pp. 398–400, cat. A1, fig. 97. Art Institute of Chicago, Glad Tidings of Great Joy, Chicago, 1993, pp. 30–31, 39 (ill.). Molly Faries and Martha Wolff, “Landscape in the Early Paintings of Jan van Scorel,” Burl. Mag. 138 (1996), pp. 728–731, 733, fig. 13. Molly Faries, “Another New Early Jan van Scorel,” in Polyptiek: Een veelluik van Groninger bijdragen aan de kunstgeschiedenis, ed. Henk Th. van Veen et al., Zwolle, 2002, pp. 42, 46–47, 221–22. Molly Faries, “Technical Studies in Early Netherlandish Painting: A Critical Overview of Recent Developments,” in Recent Developments in the Technical Examination of Early Netherlandish Painting: Methodology, Limitations, Perspectives, ed. Molly Faries and Ron Spronk, Cambridge, Mass., and Turnhout, 2003, p. 16.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jan van Scorel (Netherlandish, 1495-1562)
    Date
    c. 1519
    Medium
    Oil on panel
    Dimensions
    44.4 × 55.2 cm (17 1/2 × 21 3/4 in.); Framed: 62.6 × 75 × 5.8 cm (24 5/8 × 29 1/2 × 2 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil paintings (visual works)
    Style
    16th Century
    Place
    Netherlands
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Wilson L. Mead Fund
    Accession no.
    1935.381

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